A working platform,
not a read-only archive.
Most cave databases are places you read. KEEP is where your grotto meets, your survey team coordinates, and your region keeps its records.
Create a group for your grotto, survey team, regional committee, or something that doesn't have a tidy label yet. Name it what your community calls it. Members share documents, coordinate trips, and run the group themselves.
- Custom group types — no preset categories forced on you.
- Member management by invite or join request.
- Member-only document archive, shared or strictly internal.
- Discussion board attached to the group's data, not scattered across email.
Cave projects
Collaborative workspaces for active survey work. Each project is a shared place for a specific cave or area.
- Attach any number of site records to the project
- Shared files (surveys, maps, reports, photos)
- Trip calendar and participant log tied to the project
- Lead, member, and observer roles
- Public or invite-only, your call per project
- Export everything at any time — it is your data
Trips & events
Plan trips tied to a project or standalone. Set dates, meeting points, participant caps. Link specific caves. Drop GPS waypoints. Log who was there. Build a record that survives the weekend.
Grottos can create events — trips, training days, survey weekends, cleanup events — with registration, waitlists, and attendance tracking.
EventsCaver directory
Opt-in only. Hidden by default. You decide what appears on your profile — name, home region, specialties, affiliations — and you can remove it at any time.
- Only verified members can search it
- Never publicly indexed, never sold
- Find cavers you've been underground with
Newsletter archive
Bulk-upload your grotto's back catalog as PDFs. Every cave reference gets pulled out and indexed, with attribution back to the original issue.
A 1978 mention — a name, a depth, a short description — becomes part of the permanent record. The box in someone's garage gets a future.
Archive